Electronic ink as a software object
First Claim
1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising,a data field including electronic ink data;
- at least one interface for invoking functionality associated with the data structure, including functionality for rendering a representation of the electronic ink data;
the functionality invoked via the interface by executable code hosting a document containing the data structure, to render a representation of the electronic ink data relative to other information contained in the document; and
at least one other data field that maintains color information related to a color of the electronic ink data, and further comprising other functionality associated with the data structure to enable the executable code to modify the color information.
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Abstract
Described is electronic ink maintained as a software object, thereby associating ink functionality with electronic ink data. The ink may be separated into words or characters, with one object per word or character. By the associated functionality, applications that deal with embedded objects in general can automatically benefit from electronic ink, including having the object'"'"'s functionality render the ink data as part the application'"'"'s document. Further, because the ink data is maintained as an object, the data is automatically persisted in association with the document into which it is embedded. Ink-aware applications may call on methods of the electronic ink object to adjust formatting, search recognized ink along with text, and perform other functions. Via the electronic ink object, electronic ink substantially approaches much of the behavior normally available with text data, without requiring applications to interpret the ink data.
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14 Claims
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1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising,
a data field including electronic ink data; -
at least one interface for invoking functionality associated with the data structure, including functionality for rendering a representation of the electronic ink data; the functionality invoked via the interface by executable code hosting a document containing the data structure, to render a representation of the electronic ink data relative to other information contained in the document; and at least one other data field that maintains color information related to a color of the electronic ink data, and further comprising other functionality associated with the data structure to enable the executable code to modify the color information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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